Friday, January 4, 2013

I am participating in a 100 Book Reading Challenge for 2013 hosted by Book Chick City! Am I crazy? Do I really think I can read 100 books in a year when I have a job and a toddler at home? Only time will tell if this can be accomplished! If you would like to participate in this challenge please click here to be directed to Book Chick City's blog. Happy reading!

Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship
Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on
Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the
universe to experience.

But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had
been hoping for. There are giant pterodactyl-like birds, purple flowers with
mind-numbing toxins, and mysterious, unexplained ruins that hold more secrets
than their stone walls first let on. The biggest secret of all?
Godspeed's former passengers aren't alone on this planet. And if they're
going to stay, they'll have to fight.

Amy and Elder must race to discover
who--or what--else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their
struggling colony and building a future together. They will have to look inward
to the very core of what makes them human on this, their most harrowing journey
yet. Because if the colony collapses? Then everything they have
sacrificed--friends, family, life on Earth--will have been for
nothing.

The past few years held more surprises than part-angel Clara Gardner ever
could have anticipated. Yet through the dizzying high of first love to the
agonizing low of losing someone close to her, the one thing she could no longer
deny was that she was never meant to have a normal life.

Since discovering the special role she plays among the other angel-bloods,
Clara has been determined to protect Tucker Avery from the evil that follows her
. . . even if it means breaking both their hearts. Leaving town seemed like the
best option, so she's headed back to California—and so is Christian Prescott,
the irresistible boy from the vision that started her on this journey in the
first place.

As Clara makes her way in a world that is frighteningly new, she discovers
that the fallen angel who attacked her is watching her every move. And he's not
the only one. . . . With the battle against the Black Wings looming, Clara knows
she must finally fulfill her destiny. But it won't come without sacrifices and
betrayal.

In the riveting finale of the Unearthly series, Clara must choose her fate
once and for all.

Synopsis:
Perfect for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and Looking for Alaska,
Jennifer Weiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author, calls Elizabeth
LaBan’sThe Tragedy Paper“a beguiling and beautifully written
tale of first love and heartbreak.”

It follows the story of Tim Macbeth,
a seventeen-year-old albino and a recent transfer to the prestigious Irving
School, where the motto is “Enter here to be and find a friend.” A friend is the
last thing Tim expects or wants—he just hopes to get through his senior year
unnoticed. Yet, despite his efforts to blend into the background, he finds
himself falling for the quintessential “It” girl, Vanessa Sheller, girlfriend of
Irving’s most popular boy. To Tim's surprise, Vanessa is into him, too, but she
can kiss her social status goodbye if anyone ever finds out. Tim and Vanessa
begin a clandestine romance, but looming over them is the Tragedy Paper,
Irving’s version of a senior year thesis, assigned by the school’s least
forgiving teacher.

Jumping between viewpoints of the love-struck Tim and
Duncan, a current senior about to uncover the truth of Tim and Vanessa, The
Tragedy Paper is a compelling tale of forbidden love and the lengths people
will go to keep their secrets.

It's been months since Aria learned of her mother's death.
Months since Perry became Blood Lord of the Tides, and months since Aria last
saw him.

Now Aria and Perry are about to be reunited. It's a moment they've been
longing for with countless expectations. And it's a moment that lives up to all
of them. At least, at fi rst. Then it slips away. The Tides don't take kindly to
former Dwellers like Aria. And the tribe is swirling out of Perry's control.
With the Aether storms worsening every day, the only remaining hope for peace
and safety is the Still Blue. But does this haven truly exist?

Threatened by false friends and powerful temptations, Aria and Perry wonder,
Can their love survive through the ever night? In this second book in her
spellbinding Under the Never Sky trilogy, Veronica Rossi combines fantasy and
sci-fi elements to create a captivating adventure—and a love story as perilous
as it is unforgettable.

Synopsis:In this gripping exploration of a futuristic afterlife, a teen discovers that death is just the beginning. Since her untimely death the day before her eighteenth birthday, Felicia Ward
has been trapped in Level 2, a stark white afterlife located between our world
and the next. Along with her fellow drones, Felicia passes the endless hours
reliving memories of her time on Earth and mourning what she’s lost—family,
friends, and Neil, the boy she loved.
Then a girl in a neighboring chamber is found dead, and nobody but Felicia
recalls that she existed in the first place. When Julian—a dangerously charming
guy Felicia knew in life—comes to offer Felicia a way out, Felicia learns the
truth: If she joins the rebellion to overthrow the Morati, the angel guardians
of Level 2, she can be with Neil again.
Suspended between Heaven and Earth, Felicia finds herself at the center of an
age-old struggle between good and evil. As memories from her life come back to
haunt her, and as the Morati hunt her down, Felicia will discover it’s not just
her own redemption at stake… but the salvation of all mankind.﻿

Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only
Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which
they rest is the Archive. Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago,
when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself. Now
Da is dead, and Mac has grown into what he once was: a ruthless Keeper, tasked
with stopping often-violent Histories from waking up and getting out. Because of
her job, she lies to the people she loves, and she knows fear for what it is: a
useful tool for staying alive.

Being a Keeper isn’t just dangerous—it’s a
constant reminder of those Mac has lost. Da’s death was hard enough, but now
that her little brother is gone too, Mac starts to wonder about the boundary
between living and dying, sleeping and waking. In the Archive, the dead must
never be disturbed. And yet, someone is deliberately altering Histories, erasing
essential chapters. Unless Mac can piece together what remains, the Archive
itself might crumble and fall.

Nikki Beckett could only watch as her boyfriend, Jack, sacrificed himself to
save her, taking her place in the Tunnels of the Everneath for eternity—a debt
that should've been hers. Now she is living a borrowed life, and she doesn't
know what to do with the guilt. And every night, Jack appears in her dreams,
lost and confused and wasting away. No matter how she tries to reach for his
hand, she can never find it.

Desperate for answers, Nikki turns to Cole, the immortal bad boy who wants to
make her his queen—and the one person least likely to help. But his heart has
been touched by everything about Nikki, and he agrees to help in the only way he
can: by taking her to the Everneath himself.

Nikki and Cole, along with Cole's bandmate Max, descend into the Everneath,
only to discover that their journey will be more difficult than they'd
anticipated—and more deadly. From a Lake of Blood and Guilt to Sirens' alluring
tricks to insurmountable walls of rock and flame, the trio is given every reason
to turn back and give up. But Nikki vows to stop at nothing to save Jack—even if
it means making an incredible sacrifice of her own.

In this breathtaking sequel to Everneath, Brodi Ashton tests the
bonds of destiny and explores the lengths we'll go to for the ones we love.

Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since
June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day
is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought
they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor.
Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to
bring down the Republic. But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become
pawns in the most terrifying of political games?

DarksoulsAna has always been the only one. Asunder. Apart. But after
Templedark, when many residents of Heart were lost forever, some hold Ana
responsible for the darksouls—and the newsouls who may be born in their place.

ShadowsMany are afraid of Ana's presence, a constant reminder of
unstoppable changes. When sylph begin behaving differently toward her and people
turn violent, Ana must learn to stand up not only for herself but for those who
cannot stand up for themselves.

LoveAna was told that nosouls can't love. But newsouls? More than
anything, she wants to live and love as an equal among the citizens of Heart,
but even when Sam professes his deepest feelings, it seems impossible to
overcome a lifetime of rejection.

In this compelling and spirited debut novel, 16-year-old Rayna Evans has spent
the last three years in a mental institution for seeing angels—intent on
remaining free, she ignores signs that she may be slipping into a world she has
tried to climb out of. When her hallucinations begin showing up at school, can
she keep her sanity and prevent students from dying at the hands of angels she
cannot admit to seeing? Psychiatry, fantasy, and realism come together here in a
story of a young girl struggling with identity, secrets, and confronting her
greatest fears.